Neonatal infection: a major burden with minimal funding
Neonatal infection: a major burden with minimal funding
Further progress in decreasing child mortality depends on reducing the 2·9 million neonatal deaths each year, around a quarter of which are directly due to infection.1 However, systemic underfunding is limiting research and threatens further advances. The need is great: an estimated 6·9 million neonates required treatment for possible serious bacterial infection in 2012 in high-burden settings,2 and the Global Burden of Disease Study estimates suggest that neonatal infections account for around 3% of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), with insufficient data to estimate long-term disability after sepsis or pneumonia.3 and 4
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Seale, Anna C., Head, Michael, Fitchett, Elizabeth J.A., Vergnano, Stefania, Saha, Samir K., Heath, Paul T., Sharland, Mike and Lawn, Joy E.
(2015)
Neonatal infection: a major burden with minimal funding.
The Lancet Global Health, 3 (11), .
(doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00204-1).
Abstract
Further progress in decreasing child mortality depends on reducing the 2·9 million neonatal deaths each year, around a quarter of which are directly due to infection.1 However, systemic underfunding is limiting research and threatens further advances. The need is great: an estimated 6·9 million neonates required treatment for possible serious bacterial infection in 2012 in high-burden settings,2 and the Global Burden of Disease Study estimates suggest that neonatal infections account for around 3% of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), with insufficient data to estimate long-term disability after sepsis or pneumonia.3 and 4
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Published date: November 2015
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